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The New Vision (Uganda) - August 14, 2001
Kaggwa, who was at the weekend addressing the annual general meeting of TASO at Mulago, said the ministry should consider funding TASO to enable it educate the people against the AIDS epidemic. He said TASO was a volunteer group that has contributed greatly in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Kaggwa said Mulago Hospital had the Anti-Ultraviral drugs, but are about to expire without being used. He said the drugs were to be availed to the patients at sh300,000 for three tablets instead of sh1m per drug that was only availed to patients with reasonable income. "TASO as a volunteer support organisation should lobby for an annual share and the AIDS control programme should aim at TASO to be its policy implementing agent," Kaggwa said.
TASO chief executive officer Dr Alex Coutinho said they would receive food from the UN for the next five years.
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